Week 27: Initial Ideas: Sketches, Font and Colour Scheme

I have been creating my pitch for my idea for a new student magazine, creating the front cover, double page spread and contents page, I have included a lot of information on my idea for my student magazine, this includes the colour scheme, font and name, mood board and sketches of my initial idea.

I have firstly shown my mood board for my colour scheme of red, which shows the different shades of red and also shows the types of fonts which I could consider using for my student magazine, them being bold and in the colour of red. Within this mood board it also shows the colour white, this is because I wanted to use this colour with the Red as they work well together and help each other stand out, also my target audience thought that these colours work well together within a student magazine. Also within this mood board shows the features which would be included within my student magazine and would appeal to students, including music, events, competitions, fashion and career news.  



My Colour Scheme Mood Board





I have also decided on the font which I will use for my Student Magazine name, as my name for the magazine is Students United, I have considered different styles for my title for my magazine and I have decided on the font from dafont.com called dream orphans, this is a font which I believe is bold and looks 'sophisticated' for a student magazine but at the same time will appeal to the target audience of students. I have also added colour to this font and by using the block colour behind the main font I believe helps the font stand out and become bolder from the rest of the front cover. This could be the colours which I may use, although the Honeysuckle colour which is in 'trend' I believe is too feminine and therefore I believe the image which shows the use of the red background with the white writing works really well and stands out clearly.

Although, this is not my own original font therefore I will need to create my own masthead for my final magazine front cover, therefore I hope to keep a similar font and find a similar font in Photoshop to create my original image.

Chosen Font for Title of Magazine: Dream Orphans from dafont.com





Colour Scheme added to Chosen Font

Sketches of Front Cover and Contents Page

These are my initial sketches of my contents page and front cover, this shows the layout of the pages.

Front Cover Sketch

Contents Page Sketch

 I now need to concentrate on completing my double page spread sketch, so I therefore have an idea of how I want the pages to be laid out to be eye catching.